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As you stand up to pray these ten nights to catch Lailatul Qadr, pick 2-3 things every night to thank Allah for, which He must have written for you last Lailatul Qadr. That is, something that happened since last Ramadan which you are grateful for. Explicitly mention to Him how these gifts benefitted you.

In a tafseer by Nouman Ali Khan, he says that this above verse of gratitude is very powerful. Because Allah does not limit His giving to only those things which we express thanks for. Which means that if you have zero income but you give thanks for health, He will increase you in income as well, inshaAllah (Allah willing).

So these ten nights, gratitude away. The more you show Allah how much you love everything He gives you, the more He will give you, because He loves to make you happy. So show Him how happy and appreciative you are, and then be ready to receive, inshaAllah (Allah willing). After all the prophet (may peace be upon him) did tell us that “actions are determined by their end”, so lets end this year and this month of Allah’s love and kindness with heartfelt gratitude.

As I always say, more often than not, serendipity happens. Alhamdulillah.

Peace out ✌🏻

Please remember me in your duas as well, that Allah fulfills my requests in these blessed nights. I am in a very critical point in my life with all the tests and trials. May He grant you much more than you ask for me, much much sooner.

In the Quran Allah reminds us around 90 times about the lofty virtues of Sabr (Patience+Steadfastness). Its an attribute highly valued and honored by As Sabur (The Patient One) Himself. So sabr sounds great! We look up to the Prophets for their sabr. We marvel at the “sabrfull” story of how Hajar got up every time she couldn’t help her baby.We commend those with excruciatingly painful trials for their sabr. We glorify their patience with others or their circumstances.

What about our own selves? What about having sabr with our own shortcomings within our own selves?

The fact that you cant do your 100% no matter how much you try, please be patient with your shortcomings. Be patient with your drawbacks, with the way your circumstances are affecting your worship, with your health, with your emotional and psychological challenges. Be patient with anything and everything that seems to come in the way of you reaching that pinnacle of “spirituality’, where its you, Allah and tears. The idea sounds fantastic but more often than not it might not happen. So to embrace yourself with your own shortcomings, to give yourself that pat on the back for just physically showing up, to become the voice that you want to hear, telling you that you did great- all of these inshaAllah, if Allah wills, will be part of patience. Because you are putting up with your own shortcomings without blaming yourself. Blaming is easy, taking responsibility and accepting yourself regardless requires patience, requires kindness, requires love. Most of all, it requires steadfastness coming from unconditional love and approval of yourself.

That’s what Ramadan teaches us, doesn’t it?

In the last ten nights, we recite the above prayer, asking for Allah to absolutely ignore and wipe clean our slates of bad deeds. In essence, we are asking Him to embrace us despite our shortcomings. Then why is it so hard to practice that on our own selves?

Food for thought, isn’t it?

As usual, take any good you get and leave the rest to dust.

Also please remember me in your prayers that Allah fulfills all my requests. May He grant you the same and much more.